Right now on news channel 8 at 6 00. An unpleasant surprise for two Home Invasion suspects, how the victim made sure those crooks wont be bothering anyone any time soon. Good evening, everyone. Im rod carter. Thanks so much for joining us tonight. Well begin with the expected to drench Pinellas County this week. Residents arent taking any chances. People traveled to the Community Park in st. Petersburg with their shovels and filled sand backs for free. This started at noon and about an hour later 150 bags had already been given out. We spoke with a man that says its better to be safe than sorry. I think its important just for peace of mind. Even if the weather doesnt hit, i still got a couple bags. A bit and i think its important to allow communities to prepare themselves. Sandbags will be available again tomorrow in st. Petersburg from 9 a. M. Until 5 p. M. The sandbags are limited to 20 bags per person. Just how much rain are we talking about . Lets go straight to storm team 8 meteor
3 3 were following breaking news out of georgiaatlanta area police and swat are working to resolve a standoff this morning involving two adults and 11 children. Children. Police say they were called to a local inn and suites just off i20 in decatur around 2 00 this morning. They say a man locked himself in a room after fighting with a woman. Investigators believe the children may be in danger but we dont know if the man has any weapons. Local media is in ages from 3 months to 17 years old. 3 3 this morning, the former North Charleston Police Officer charged with killing an unarmed man is out of jail. Jail. Last night. Michael slager was released on a halfmillion dollar bond. Slagers attorneys have tried several times to get him released since he was arrested last april. But prosecutors claimed he was a flight risk. Slager will stay on house arrest at an undisclosed location in South Carolina until his trial. That is set for october. 3 he is charged with murder in the shooting death of
Feet rooted right here behind his podium. Which is against my nature. Its going to extraordinarily difficult for me to stay planted but if you see me wandering stage right, wave your hands, make some signal and i will return to the podium as quickly as i can. I also, i have some incredibly interesting and amazing videos in which we were panning and zooming about the globe. I can promise you will not see those. Tonight apparently they did not have the latest version of powerpoint in 1719. So well see some stills nonetheless, which i hope will keep your attention. So were going to talk about 1776, and this was a trying year for revolutionaries and the 13 british mainland colonies. The ragtag Continental Army scored a victory in march of 1776 when the british withdrew from boston, but the success was shortlived. An invasion of canada ended in disaster largely because a smallpox epidemic that eventually crossed the continent. And then the british drove washingtons troops from new york. In
And so, that is lie. The other lie is that one star deets himself was an indian. He was convicted of fraud for pretending to be an indian because he was trying to dodge the draft. Yet, the team maintains on its website that is the origin of the name. Similarly, this team has an origin myth. They say it was a fellow named henry who was a baseball player for the team. They say they named their team and order to honor him. If you really begin to dig into that history, what we find is henry was treated incredibly badly by the fans. Second, he was not that good. He was not the kind of guy you would name your team for. He was not bad, but he was not that good. Third, he was not a very nice guy. All of this sort of suggests that they made that up. This is part of what goes on when dealing with indians and in the public discourse. Things get made up and indians become very malleable and they are formed in order to fill whatever particular role the institution or entity or state or country need
Easier to go on holiday. In thejohnny depp libel trial, more allegations of arguments and violence with his ex wife, amber heard. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world. The United States has once again breached a new daily record for confirmed coronavirus infections. Cases were falling towards the end of last month, but they are now rising steeply again, exceeding 65,000, making these the greatest single day tallies for any country since the Global Pandemic began. The spike in infections has been particularly bad in the south and west of the country, with the state of arizona recording the most cases. 0ur correspondent sophie long has been there. Loud music plays when the governor of arizona lifted the states stay at home order, people partied, pre pandemic style. It was a joke to us. We werejust like, covids fake news. Days later, many woke up to what will probably be the worst hangover of their lives. Never imagined in my life id be in a hospital, you know